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...there is such a compelling cause--the cause of preventing Iraq from wreaking havoc in the Middle East and threatening the safety of the entire world. Allowing Saddam Hussein a way out with a face-saving negotiated settlement will only enable him to bide his time and strike out when Iraq's military prowess is even greater...
...event the gulf crisis poses a make-or-break test for America's tenure as sole superpower. For now the public is solidly united behind Bush's policy. But that could change if the crisis has an unhappy ending: a prolonged stalemate combined with deep domestic recession, a settlement allowing Iraq to keep some fruits of aggression, a bloody and inconclusive war. Some experts fear that any such outcome would inspire a resurgence of isolationism that would put a speedy stop to any ideas of building a New World Order...
Conceivably, the U.N. could one day throw its umbrella over a new peacekeeping (i.e., Iraq-containment) force in the Middle East; it has already voted to dispatch 20,000 soldiers and civilians from various countries to police a prospective settlement in Cambodia. For some time, though, its primary tool to enforce its decisions will probably continue to be the embargo. Not long ago, such economic sanctions were considered useless. But that thinking is changing. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, formerly the loudest voice in the sanctions-never-succeed school, stated last week, "It is just becoming obvious that some...
...Bush Administration and its bipartisan supporters in Congress believe the civil war will be brought to an end only through a "comprehensive" settlement that includes removal of the nominally communist Hun Sen government. Others, like former Secretary of State Edmund Muskie and Democratic Senator Robert Kerrey, think the war could end through regular government-to-government contact between Washington and Phnom Penh and the lifting of the U.S.-led economic boycott of Cambodia. The former vision may be grander; the latter has a far better chance of success...
...only indignity they have suffered. Tens of thousands of them have also endured a seemingly endless wait for compensation from the companies that produced the mineral that has been found to cause lung cancer and other diseases. The most immediate crisis involves the Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust, formed in 1988 as the company emerged from bankruptcy reorganization. At the time, trust officials expected to handle 100,000 cases, with an average payment of $25,000 each, but so far, they have paid an average of $43,500 each on the first 24,000 claims. By last June the trust...